Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 16 hours ago
Hospitals rely on IT applications to collect, process and visualise data, in order to provide medical professionals with information about their patients’ conditions. While data sharing is essential for healthcare organisations, on the other hand cyber threats are growing. These pose more risks to the healthcare domain, including data leakage or breach incidents that could irreversibly impact patients’ privacy, health, and even cost human lives.
CUREX is an H2020 EU-funded project that develops a fully GDPR compliant novel, flexible, situational awareness-oriented platform, addressing comprehensively the protection of the confidentiality and integrity of health data.
CUREX implements cybersecurity and privacy risk assessments while optimal recommendations for cyber risk mitigations are offered in the form of a decision support tool. The platform offers a suite of tools establishing trust between healthcare organisations to address the necessity of data exchange and the elimination of cyber risks.
Each hospital that uses the CUREX platform publishes its cyber and privacy risk scores to a private blockchain becoming part of the wider network of CUREX hospitals. These scores are monitored using smart-contracts to assist organisations with the decision making process related to health data exchanges.
To understand how CUREX will impact modern healthcare, let's see a real life application scenario. Jose from Spain is spending a few days in Sweden for business. While he is enjoying dinner, he starts feeling unwell and decides to visit a local hospital. In order to provide his medical history to facilitate diagnosis, cross-border healthcare services require the exchange of Jose’s health data between his home-country and the Swedish hospital.
CUREX provides security and privacy risk assessment and proposes risk mitigation measures, thereby supporting processes where healthcare data is exchanged.
The platform leverages novel methods on ontological health data modelling, vulnerability discovery, threat intelligence, cybersecurity and privacy risk assessment and state-of-the-art in blockchain technologies.
In this way, it provides accountability and auditability functionalities that safeguard patient safety and privacy and increase their trust to the critical healthcare information infrastructures.
CUREX: the first blockchain platform for enhancing trust in health data exchange.
Hospitals rely on IT applications to collect, process and visualise data, in order to provide medical professionals with information about their patients’ conditions. While data sharing is essential for healthcare organisations, on the other hand cyber threats are growing. These pose more risks to the healthcare domain, including data leakage or breach incidents that could irreversibly impact patients’ privacy, health, and even cost human lives.
CUREX is an H2020 EU-funded project that develops a fully GDPR compliant novel, flexible, situational awareness-oriented platform, addressing comprehensively the protection of the confidentiality and integrity of health data.
CUREX implements cybersecurity and privacy risk assessments while optimal recommendations for cyber risk mitigations are offered in the form of a decision support tool. The platform offers a suite of tools establishing trust between healthcare organisations to address the necessity of data exchange and the elimination of cyber risks.
Each hospital that uses the CUREX platform publishes its cyber and privacy risk scores to a private blockchain becoming part of the wider network of CUREX hospitals. These scores are monitored using smart-contracts to assist organisations with the decision making process related to health data exchanges.
To understand how CUREX will impact modern healthcare, let's see a real life application scenario. Jose from Spain is spending a few days in Sweden for business. While he is enjoying dinner, he starts feeling unwell and decides to visit a local hospital. In order to provide his medical history to facilitate diagnosis, cross-border healthcare services require the exchange of Jose’s health data between his home-country and the Swedish hospital.
CUREX provides security and privacy risk assessment and proposes risk mitigation measures, thereby supporting processes where healthcare data is exchanged.
The platform leverages novel methods on ontological health data modelling, vulnerability discovery, threat intelligence, cybersecurity and privacy risk assessment and state-of-the-art in blockchain technologies.
In this way, it provides accountability and auditability functionalities that safeguard patient safety and privacy and increase their trust to the critical healthcare information infrastructures.
CUREX: the first blockchain platform for enhancing trust in health data exchange.
